more landscape

There's the lamp post. Beside it a shrub. Another detail of what I see when I walk from the car to the house. My nomenclature is behind the times. It shall for now have to be the shrub that is what it is. If you don't mind a reference to Genesis. And we shall not touch the shrub reference to the White House.

wi-fi lights the night

Thanks to a slow laptop on loan from my work and wi-fi in our house thanks to the ingenuity of Joel, well, work can go on and on.

While some neighbors debate the salvific nature of buggy whips, we're wildly embracing wi-fi.

While some neighbors are reading the Sugar Creek Budget by kerosene lamp, here's Dorcas working on a seminary course on biblical interpretation by the glow of pixels.

New light in time for solstice

In time for the shortest day, the winter solstice, a new light started to shine between the driveway and the house. On this frosty day baby icicles hung all four sides.

With this being December 13, there are only 7 more days until the shortest day. One father with two small children told me that he loves this time of year. It's dark when the kids go to bed and dark when they get up. Somehow that makes it easier.

The lamp was made in Hanover, Pa. It sits on a cedar post. The electric wire goes up a hole in the center the length of the post. I'd like to know how to drill such a long hole.

This is really outside light four. My parents had an electrician put up the high light at the corner of the house. Joel and I made that into a double light about 1997. When we put in the office at about the same time, we installed a light outside the office door. I forget when we put a light at the back door. It could have been in preparation for Sarah's graduation party.